Present Constitution
In April 2010, the Institute moved, as part of a strategic collaboration with Queen Mary, University of London, through the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI) within the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS). The Institute to be co-located with the Centre of Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary. It is therefore presently based in Lincoln's Inn Fields. At the same time, Professor Johanna Gibson became the director of the Institute.
The Intellectual Property Institute as a Research Council which is responsible for setting the Institute's research agenda and a Board which is responsible for its management. The current Chair of the Board is Alison Brimelow, former President of the European Patent Office and Comptroller of the UK Patent Office who was appointed in April 2011.
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